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- 0:07Speaker 1: You guys are the most entertaining sports program in the world.
- 0:12Speaker 2: No, no, stop twerking. You and I are a couple eating,
- 0:16Speaker 2: like Lady and the Tramp. You're the lady on the tramp.
- 0:19Speaker 3: Yeah!
- 0:20Speaker 4: Cabo!
- 0:21Speaker 5: Cabo, baby! I wish I was Boopy. Boopy McClain, man.
- 0:24Speaker 5: That's a great name.
- 0:25Speaker 2: All aboard!
- 0:26Speaker 6: All aboard!
- 0:41Speaker 5: Good morning, Charlotte.
- 0:43Speaker 3: Welcome aboard. We have made it to Friday. We have
- 0:46Speaker 3: made it to a football Friday. And we are healthy,
- 0:49Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. Relatively speaking. Relatively speaking.
- 0:53Speaker 5: Relatively.
- 0:53Speaker 3: Bone has the oldest 42-year-old body in the world. So,
- 0:58Speaker 3: I mean, that's going to come without saying. But relatively speaking,
- 1:02Speaker 3: compared to the fellas at the stadium, I think we're
- 1:06Speaker 3: pretty darn healthy. We're ready to do this thing today.
- 1:08Speaker 3: We're ready to do this thing tomorrow. We got the
- 1:09Speaker 3: Braves through to face the Dodgers and the NLDS. Big
- 1:14Speaker 3: performance last night from the Bravos. We will talk about
- 1:18Speaker 3: that here off the jump. We got a big ACC
- 1:21Speaker 3: college football game tonight. We've got Jalen Coker kind of
- 1:25Speaker 3: giving us an injury update as we take a look,
- 1:29Speaker 3: our daily look at the lengthy Panthers injury report. We'll
- 1:33Speaker 3: talk about that, obviously, as well. Coordinators talking yesterday about
- 1:37Speaker 3: Brad Idzik discussing the need to get a running game going.
- 1:42Speaker 3: So we'll talk about that as well here on the
- 1:45Speaker 3: Mac and bone show. We got a lot happening. Are y'all,
- 1:48Speaker 3: is there anybody Panthering up? I feel like it could
- 1:51Speaker 3: be a very, very Panther up a bill. I feel
- 1:57Speaker 3: like could, could, could have a very small population today,
- 1:59Speaker 3: but we'll see. We'll see how y'all are feeling out there.
- 2:03Speaker 3: And we got a lot of college football matchups to
- 2:05Speaker 3: talk about on the show today here on a football Friday,
- 2:08Speaker 3: the bone man in the house, the fit dog in
- 2:12Speaker 3: the house, the look on 50 space. When I asked
- 2:14Speaker 3: if you're Panthering out was, was, was amusing.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Well this this really test is resolved because he goes
- 2:21Speaker 2: and panthers up no matter what this is a real
- 2:23Speaker 2: big test for the fit dog.
- 2:25Speaker 3: Yeah i'm not sure this is much of a test
- 2:27Speaker 3: by the way i do want to point out and
- 2:28Speaker 3: we will point this out throughout the show we are
- 2:30Speaker 3: only three and a half point underdogs we won last
- 2:33Speaker 3: year bone as double digit underdogs twice there seems to
- 2:37Speaker 3: be this feeling from some people that like this like
- 2:39Speaker 3: we're 20 point dogs this week Oh, yeah.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Seven points less than a year ago.
- 2:47Speaker 3: It's 11 points less than the Packer game last year.
- 2:50Speaker 3: We were two touchdown dogs in that game. They were
- 2:52Speaker 3: at their best when you thought they couldn't do anything
- 2:54Speaker 3: last year. So I do want to throw that out there,
- 2:57Speaker 3: and I'm not saying I'm Panthering it up, necessarily.
- 2:59Speaker 5: We'll see. But I do want to throw that out there.
- 3:03Speaker 3: I mean, if anybody watched Lions-Jets last week, I'm not
- 3:07Speaker 3: sure they would come away thinking the Detroit Lions are
- 3:10Speaker 3: Super Bowl champions in the making. So I just want
- 3:13Speaker 3: to toss that out there to start the show.
- 3:17Speaker 2: They're an offensive wagon, but defensively, they're going to be
- 3:20Speaker 2: in a lot of games where. they're going to have
- 3:22Speaker 2: to score 30 or more to win the football game. So, yeah,
- 3:26Speaker 2: it's going to be a very high-scoring affair on Sunday.
- 3:31Speaker 2: I think that's the theme of the day, how high-scoring
- 3:34Speaker 2: may this.
- 3:34Speaker 5: Game actually get. That's my question.
- 3:38Speaker 3: I felt a little better last night, Bone, watching the
- 3:40Speaker 3: Browns beat the Steelers. I will say I felt really
- 3:43Speaker 3: good at halftime. At halftime when the Browns were up 21-10,
- 3:47Speaker 3: had controlled the game, I thought, you know what? Deshaun
- 3:51Speaker 3: Watson was 14 of 17 for over 180 yards at
- 3:54Speaker 3: that point. And I'm like, you know what? Losing to
- 3:57Speaker 3: the Browns might not be what we thought it was.
- 3:59Speaker 2: You had him balling and Aaron Rodgers cussing out coaches.
- 4:02Speaker 2: It was all coming together last night.
- 4:04Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Do you think McCarthy's glad he has reunited with that jackass?
- 4:11Speaker 5: Holy smokes. My God. But anyway.
- 4:13Speaker 2: You know when the coach is grumbling back that effing
- 4:18Speaker 2: bleep hole while the play's going on.
- 4:21Speaker 3: Yeah, what was Rodgers saying? Get the effing play in.
- 4:24Speaker 3: Call the effing play in, McCarthy, with that. F and
- 4:28Speaker 3: bleep all. Yeah.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:30Speaker 3: The things look great there between the two of those gentlemen.
- 4:33Speaker 3: But anyway, second half was a different story. Pittsburgh got
- 4:37Speaker 3: back in the game, but the Browns did win it
- 4:40Speaker 3: on a late 56 yard field goal. And they are
- 4:44Speaker 3: now three and one on the season. So I do
- 4:47Speaker 3: think it's clearly a case of the Browns being better
- 4:51Speaker 3: than we thought they were. I'm not on here. trying
- 4:55Speaker 3: to completely sugarcoat anything. But as a Panther fan, I
- 5:01Speaker 3: will file that away mentally. I do think, Bone, I
- 5:04Speaker 3: think the Browns are proving, and I think Watson is proving,
- 5:07Speaker 3: they are better than we expected them to be.
- 5:09Speaker 2: We have the Steelers, excuse me, the Browns and the
- 5:14Speaker 2: Raiders at 6-1 combined right now.
- 5:16Speaker 5: 3-0 for the Raiders. Finney, hit him in the back, dude.
- 5:24Speaker 5: Hit him in the back and stop that.
- 5:25Speaker 2: For the Raiders and a 3-1 for the Browns. Which
- 5:27Speaker 2: one do you believe is more sustainable? It's either one
- 5:29Speaker 2: mag or real. Do you think that those teams are
- 5:33Speaker 2: on their path to really good seasons?
- 5:34Speaker 5: Raiders and the Browns. I got no idea, man. You
- 5:38Speaker 5: know I got no idea.
- 5:39Speaker 3: I got no idea how to figure out the team
- 5:41Speaker 3: that I watch every week and obsess over every week.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Fox analyst Tom Brady thinks the Raiders are a top
- 5:47Speaker 2: five team in the league.
- 5:47Speaker 5: I wonder why. I wonder why. That's very unbiased opinion
- 5:50Speaker 5: there for Mr.
- 5:51Speaker 3: Brady. Another thing that was good to see is it
- 5:53Speaker 3: was good to see the Cleveland Browns defense absolutely shalama-bam
- 5:59Speaker 3: and molly-wop Aaron Rodgers all night. And I'm not speaking– well, yeah,
- 6:03Speaker 3: I am speaking a little for hating Aaron Rodgers. But no,
- 6:05Speaker 3: I'm just talking about, Bone, that our offensive line got
- 6:08Speaker 3: obliterated by that defensive front.
- 6:10Speaker 5: Well, our boys have company.
- 6:12Speaker 3: Because last night, the Cleveland front absolutely dominated the Pittsburgh
- 6:17Speaker 3: front in the pass rush game. So it's just things
- 6:19Speaker 3: like that.
- 6:20Speaker 5: I don't know. And that's with Mason Graham missing most
- 6:22Speaker 5: of the game.
- 6:22Speaker 3: That's true. That's true, too. And, you know, he's a
- 6:24Speaker 3: guy that's been their best player on the defensive front.
- 6:27Speaker 3: So things like that, I'm just kind of filing away.
- 6:29Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
- 6:31Speaker 3: Just kind of filing away as signs that, I don't know,
- 6:33Speaker 3: maybe what happened on Sunday doesn't need to have us,
- 6:36Speaker 3: you know, losing our minds completely.
- 6:38Speaker 5: You mean mentally filing. You don't have an actual.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Mac, like, notes filing cabinet, where you put stuff away
- 6:44Speaker 2: and go check it?
- 6:45Speaker 5: No, no, let's not get carried away. Let's not get
- 6:48Speaker 5: crazy there. You don't need one. Your brain's good enough.
- 6:50Speaker 5: I trust.
- 6:52Speaker 3: It. Also, notice that the Panthers did a much better
- 6:57Speaker 3: job on Denzel Boston and Casey Concepcion. Hell, even Jerry
- 7:01Speaker 3: Judy made an appearance. Dude had two catches coming in.
- 7:05Speaker 3: Zero catches versus the Panthers. Had a couple of big catches,
- 7:08Speaker 3: including two on that late field goal drive, so... Again,
- 7:12Speaker 3: these are the things I notice when I watch the
- 7:14Speaker 3: Panthers opponent play the game.
- 7:16Speaker 5: Right after us.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Someone points out that McCarthy and Rogers seems like a
- 7:20Speaker 2: typical 6 a.m. conversation between Mac and Finney that goes awry.
- 7:27Speaker 5: Oh, man.
- 7:28Speaker 2: Matt calls for audio, and it's not there, and away
- 7:30Speaker 2: we go.
- 7:32Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
- 7:33Speaker 2: Kill up the audio.
- 7:34Speaker 5: I'm one. That bleepin' bleep.
- 7:36Speaker 3: Those two, like, there was tension in Green Bay, and
- 7:41Speaker 3: there's tension again. Yeah, it's an old married couple situation
- 7:44Speaker 3: right there. Got to salute the Braves last night, Bone.
- 7:48Speaker 3: They got it going early. Michael Harris with the huge
- 7:51Speaker 3: three-run home run. Philly decided to go with Aaron Nola
- 7:55Speaker 3: to start this game. He walks two, and then Harris
- 7:59Speaker 3: hits the home run. Then you had the Braves scoring
- 8:03Speaker 3: their six runs in a 6-2 win all on home runs.
- 8:06Speaker 3: Then you had the Albies two-run shot against Zach Wheeler.
- 8:10Speaker 3: There is again a theme that the runner that was
- 8:13Speaker 3: on base when the home run was hit was a walk.
- 8:16Speaker 3: So three of the runs scored were guys that were
- 8:19Speaker 3: on base because of walks when home runs were hit.
- 8:22Speaker 5: So that was certainly a big part of that.
- 8:24Speaker 3: The storyline, and how about what the Braves got out
- 8:29Speaker 3: of a dude that I.
- 8:30Speaker 5: Would have thought Bone was only going to pitch one
- 8:32Speaker 5: inning in Ray Kerr.
- 8:33Speaker 3: We talked about this yesterday, that a lot of the
- 8:36Speaker 3: speculation was that Ray Kerr would be the.
- 8:39Speaker 5: Opener and then they would go to Grant Holmes.
- 8:41Speaker 3: The dang opener ended up going three and a third
- 8:45Speaker 3: innings and gave up no runs.
- 8:46Speaker 2: That was remarkable last night, man. Yeah, for a guy
- 8:49Speaker 2: caught up in August, he's a huge part of that.
- 8:52Speaker 2: saving the season to get five and a third three
- 8:55Speaker 2: hits one earned run from current homes is huge and
- 9:00Speaker 2: how about the the sort of stealth surprise move the
- 9:04Speaker 2: coy move at the end of the game to use
- 9:07Speaker 2: Chris Sayle for an inning and a third on one
- 9:10Speaker 2: day's rest. I thought, Mac, if anyone's not, everyone could
- 9:15Speaker 2: be on the table for them, but obviously Malley pitched
- 9:17Speaker 2: the day before. I didn't think, because Chris Sayles passed,
- 9:20Speaker 2: I didn't think that he would be available for maybe
- 9:23Speaker 2: more than a batter or two just to be safe
- 9:25Speaker 2: with him. But that dude comes in, pitches an inning
- 9:27Speaker 2: in the third, three strikeouts, and shuts the door.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think it was basically his throwing on
- 9:33Speaker 3: the side was basically on the mound in a playoff,
- 9:37Speaker 3: in a winner-take-all playoff game. I hope he can still
- 9:41Speaker 3: go on Sunday. Um, but we'll see. I mean, I
- 9:43Speaker 3: don't even think we know who the pitchers are tomorrow.
- 9:46Speaker 3: That series will start by the way, no rest for
- 9:49Speaker 3: the Bravos. They've got a travel day to get out
- 9:52Speaker 3: to LA and that series starts at 4 p.m eastern
- 9:55Speaker 3: time tomorrow i didn't understand the.
- 9:58Speaker 2: Uh the the maybe maybe i'm uh maybe i'm a
- 10:00Speaker 2: dope and i didn't understand that probably i didn't you
- 10:04Speaker 2: all right there he set me up for that one
- 10:06Speaker 2: i didn't understand the start time for that tomorrow because
- 10:08Speaker 2: it's 4 30 eastern right 1 30 west coast time
- 10:12Speaker 2: but the brewers are at 8 30 eastern 7 30
- 10:14Speaker 2: central i I would have thought the Brewers series would
- 10:19Speaker 2: have been the afternoon game in the Dodgers start at 830.
- 10:23Speaker 5: I don't get that either. What are the Yankees playing?
- 10:25Speaker 2: Yankees are playing, were they in the 6 o'clock hour tomorrow,
- 10:28Speaker 2: 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock tomorrow night?
- 10:30Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 10:31Speaker 5: I don't even know the times of the damn games.
- 10:33Speaker 5: The Yankees are at 6.30 tomorrow night. But why? I
- 10:35Speaker 5: would think the Dodgers normally reside.
- 10:37Speaker 2: In that late window, obviously, because they're 5.30 their time.
- 10:43Speaker 2: Why are the Brewers, the central team, playing the 8.30 game?
- 10:46Speaker 2: That didn't make a lot of sense to me. It's
- 10:47Speaker 2: a good question. It's a good question. But it flips
- 10:50Speaker 2: the next day, though. The next day, the Dodgers-Braves goes
- 10:53Speaker 2: to the 8 o'clock game while the Brewers moves up
- 10:56Speaker 2: to the afternoon game.
- 10:56Speaker 5: All right, there you go, y'all. There you go. Very,
- 10:58Speaker 5: very confusing. Doubt I'm hurt by this.
- 11:00Speaker 3: There are some times, Bone, where I actually, like most
- 11:03Speaker 3: of the time, y'all say, you just Matt-cursed the team.
- 11:05Speaker 3: You just Matt-cursed my team. You Matt-cursed the Panthers. And
- 11:09Speaker 3: most of the time, I'm like, I'll bite me. I
- 11:10Speaker 3: wasn't on the field, you goobers. But there are times, Bone,
- 11:14Speaker 3: where I truly believe there's something going on there.
- 11:18Speaker 5: Me disavowing.
- 11:19Speaker 3: The Braves disassociating myself from the Braves for the greater
- 11:22Speaker 3: good of society yesterday and then guaranteeing a Phillies win.
- 11:27Speaker 3: This is this is the type of day I wake
- 11:29Speaker 3: up and I'm like, I think I have some effed
- 11:32Speaker 3: up powers.
- 11:34Speaker 2: I really do. Are we going to get Dodgers, Mac,
- 11:38Speaker 2: right now?
- 11:38Speaker 5: Oh, the Dodgers are a lot.
- 11:39Speaker 3: I'm not even sure the Braves win a game in
- 11:41Speaker 3: this series. The Dodgers are lock city, y'all. You're joining
- 11:45Speaker 3: that Bailey Dodger. I wouldn't dare be rooting for the Braves.
- 11:48Speaker 3: There's no way I'd be rooting for the Braves in
- 11:50Speaker 3: this series.
- 11:51Speaker 5: Why would I? I'm not a Braves fan. I told
- 11:53Speaker 5: you all that yesterday.
- 11:54Speaker 2: Would you help me out and would you guarantee? Are
- 11:56Speaker 2: you going to root for the Braves? You're going to
- 11:59Speaker 2: curse the Rays for me.
- 11:59Speaker 5: Dodgers and Yankees.
- 12:00Speaker 3: I want Dodgers and Yankees in the World Series.
- 12:02Speaker 5: That's not what I want. I want Dodgers and Rays
- 12:03Speaker 5: for it. You can just say that. That's what I'm
- 12:05Speaker 5: looking for. Little Dodgers-Yanks.
- 12:08Speaker 3: So anyway, I just wanted to note that, Braves fans.
- 12:11Speaker 3: I'm sorry I got too carried away after game one.
- 12:13Speaker 3: It won't happen again.
- 12:14Speaker 5: I'm going to try to ride this out, this kind
- 12:17Speaker 5: of energy out the whole way. You're understanding your mistakes, though.
- 12:20Speaker 5: I think it's growth. You're growing. Do you think I'll
- 12:23Speaker 5: continue that when we do our Panther picks later? I
- 12:25Speaker 5: don't know. It remains to be seen.
- 12:27Speaker 3: We're going to find out. All right. We've got to
- 12:30Speaker 3: mention what's coming up tonight in the world of college football.
- 12:35Speaker 3: Big game for the ACC that has led. This lead
- 12:38Speaker 3: up to this game has included. So much ACC whining,
- 12:42Speaker 3: and it's legitimate. I don't want to act like I'm
- 12:45Speaker 3: bashing the people in the ACC. But ACC media members, coaches,
- 12:50Speaker 3: have all gone off on the fact that Virginia Tech
- 12:53Speaker 3: and Pitt are both 4-0. They play tonight, and neither
- 12:57Speaker 3: team is ranked. This has never happened, literally, in the
- 12:59Speaker 3: history of college football for a power conference. It's a
- 13:02Speaker 3: wild stat. Has never happened. And you just kind of
- 13:06Speaker 3: nod your head and you're like, of course. It's two
- 13:08Speaker 3: ACC teams that the pollsters are like, nah, I'm good.
- 13:13Speaker 3: I'm going to put Mizzou in there. And Missouri has
- 13:17Speaker 3: come under fire.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Is Missouri buying space? Some sort of weird collective thing
- 13:24Speaker 2: where their money's going towards. That's going to be the
- 13:27Speaker 2: new scandal, Mac. A team is buying space in the
- 13:29Speaker 2: top 25. They don't want to go too high, but
- 13:32Speaker 2: they love that 25 spot.
- 13:33Speaker 3: They have this stat, and I was watching a lot
- 13:37Speaker 3: of ACC Network yesterday, and you hear this is a
- 13:41Speaker 3: big storyline. The stat about Mizzou is that they have
- 13:45Speaker 3: been ranked 32 of the last 39 polls, but have
- 13:49Speaker 3: beaten one ranked team during that time. So it's just, again,
- 13:54Speaker 3: the thing is, what are you really doing at Mizzou?
- 13:56Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:57Speaker 3: I mean, I guess by Mizzou standards, bone, Eli Drink
- 13:59Speaker 3: was doing a pretty damn good job, but like the
- 14:01Speaker 3: need to constantly have them ranked when over that same
- 14:04Speaker 3: time period, Duke has never been ranked. yeah i know
- 14:08Speaker 3: and some of the success that they have had so
- 14:11Speaker 3: it's uh it's a big part.
- 14:12Speaker 5: Of the lead up to this game.
- 14:14Speaker 2: The friday night window also allows the acc to showcase
- 14:19Speaker 2: the conference as well it's a big showcase for these
- 14:22Speaker 2: programs tonight uh for the for the country they're not
- 14:25Speaker 2: they're not yes penn state plays northwestern but that's why
- 14:29Speaker 2: the acc mac likes the friday night window it's a
- 14:33Speaker 2: You know, it's not standalone per se, but compared to Saturday,
- 14:36Speaker 2: it's a very visible game. The ratings are very good
- 14:39Speaker 2: for these Friday night games. Oh, the Fox Friday night
- 14:42Speaker 2: game last week beat big noon kickoff. Indiana, Indiana, Northwestern
- 14:46Speaker 2: beat Illinois, Ohio State. So it gets good ratings tonight.
- 14:50Speaker 2: The spread is currently. Virginia Tech, a two and a
- 14:53Speaker 2: half point home favorite. That atmosphere is going to be rocking. 75%
- 14:58Speaker 2: of the money line is on Virginia Tech. 71% of
- 15:02Speaker 2: the spread is on Virginia Tech.
- 15:04Speaker 3: It's hard for me to go against the Hokies when
- 15:06Speaker 3: that atmosphere is going to be insane tonight. I mean,
- 15:09Speaker 3: they've been dying for a spot like this. in Blacksburg
- 15:12Speaker 3: for a while now, and they've got it back. And
- 15:15Speaker 3: the way they used to play on Thursday nights, and
- 15:17Speaker 3: the way the atmosphere used to be on Thursday nights,
- 15:19Speaker 3: I expect it to be tonight. Mason Heinschel, by the way,
- 15:23Speaker 3: against Power 4 opponents, averages like 150, I think it's
- 15:27Speaker 3: like 7, 58 yards passing against the non- Power, you know,
- 15:35Speaker 3: power five opponents or power four, I guess it is now, Boney.
- 15:39Speaker 3: He averages like 400 something. So like he's got something
- 15:42Speaker 3: to prove against the legitimate defense tonight because he's been
- 15:45Speaker 3: a different quarterback against legitimate teams.
- 15:49Speaker 2: What if Pittsburgh comes out, though, wearing Ohio State or
- 15:51Speaker 2: Michigan uniforms and just terrifies James Franklin, though? What if
- 15:55Speaker 2: they use that old streak against them? Jake Strickland's like, oh,
- 15:58Speaker 2: my God, who are we playing? And they go win
- 16:00Speaker 2: the game.
- 16:00Speaker 5: Too soon, Bone. Too soon. I'm sorry.
- 16:01Speaker 2: Too soon. Finney was going to make that joke if
- 16:04Speaker 2: I didn't. It was right there on the table.
- 16:05Speaker 5: We used it.
- 16:06Speaker 3: It's bad enough that I have two teams playing in
- 16:10Speaker 3: primetime for the whole country to watch this weekend. and
- 16:14Speaker 3: I'm a little scared at how they're going to represent themselves. One,
- 16:17Speaker 3: of course, is the Panthers on Sunday, but the other
- 16:19Speaker 3: one is Penn State. If they don't come out offensively
- 16:23Speaker 3: and look like they practice, because last week they did
- 16:25Speaker 3: not look like they practiced on offense, I'm going to
- 16:27Speaker 3: lose my mind.
- 16:28Speaker 5: The TV might get broken.
- 16:30Speaker 2: And they're facing– God. Chip Kelly's doing some work also
- 16:33Speaker 2: on the other side with that Northwestern offense.
- 16:35Speaker 3: And that new stadium is rocking. Yeah. They've got that
- 16:38Speaker 3: student section. They've got the– With no seats. With no seats.
- 16:41Speaker 3: They got it rocking.
- 16:42Speaker 5: So anyway, I know people don't care about Penn State Northwestern.
- 16:44Speaker 5: It's football. They care.
- 16:45Speaker 3: But Virginia Tech and Pitt, you should care about. That's
- 16:50Speaker 3: a big one for the ACC tonight. At some point,
- 16:53Speaker 3: I would hope, Bone, a Duke, a Wake, a Virginia
- 16:56Speaker 3: Tech or a Pitt, somebody can break through the Mizzou line,
- 16:59Speaker 3: the Mizzou border. that separates the non-ranked teams from the
- 17:03Speaker 3: ranked teams.
- 17:03Speaker 2: I mean, Duke got 21 in the coaches poll.
- 17:07Speaker 5: They're still trying to crack the AP poll. Oh, that's right.
- 17:09Speaker 5: That's right. The AP poll they are not in.
- 17:11Speaker 2: Also kind of odd to be ranked 21 in one
- 17:13Speaker 2: poll but not ranked in the other one. That's kind
- 17:14Speaker 2: of a far gap. Usually it might be like one
- 17:17Speaker 2: or two spots, but they're in. So they're solidly at 21,
- 17:21Speaker 2: but yet they're not ranked in the other one. It's
- 17:23Speaker 2: a little bit odd. A little bit of Duke disrespect,
- 17:25Speaker 2: but that's what happens. I mean, the good thing is,
- 17:27Speaker 2: I know we're all whining here.
- 17:28Speaker 5: Dookie filth.
- 17:29Speaker 3: The good thing is these polls don't mean squat diddly.
- 17:32Speaker 5: That's the good thing.
- 17:33Speaker 3: But the ACC often won't get respect in the poll
- 17:35Speaker 3: that eventually comes out that does mean squat diddly.
- 17:39Speaker 2: Yes.
- 17:39Speaker 3: You know?
- 17:39Speaker 2: Yes. When we come back here on the Mac and
- 17:42Speaker 2: Bone radio program on this football Friday, the Panthers injury updates.
- 17:48Speaker 2: Jalen Coker talks about his status for Sunday. You're going
- 17:52Speaker 2: to hear Brad Idzik on the need for more run-pass balance.
- 17:56Speaker 2: And Avero speaks on trusting Lee and Evans to start
- 18:01Speaker 2: that corner. A full Panthers segment next on Sports Radio 93.
- 18:26Speaker 3: Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. Mack and Bone with you as
- 18:32Speaker 3: we do this thing on a football Friday, baby. Couch
- 18:35Speaker 3: Potato Guy. When the games are on, you can mentally prepare.
- 18:39Speaker 3: your weekend and when you will be on the couch,
- 18:41Speaker 3: what you'll be watching. When I know we will be
- 18:44Speaker 3: doing that coming up at six 45 on the couch
- 18:48Speaker 3: potato guide. But right now we've got to give you
- 18:50Speaker 3: all the Panthers Intel. And unfortunately it does involve a
- 18:54Speaker 3: glance bone at the injury report. Detroit is very injured
- 18:58Speaker 3: in their secondary, but those guys are all on pup lists.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Like the three, their top three safeties are out.
- 19:04Speaker 5: They're all either.
- 19:05Speaker 3: I are a pup list right now. Their injury report,
- 19:08Speaker 3: one of them came back at practice yesterday.
- 19:10Speaker 5: One of their.
- 19:11Speaker 3: Starting corners, Reed, has been limited. But theirs looks nothing
- 19:17Speaker 3: like our injury report right now.
- 19:20Speaker 5: And we have more people. That are on IR and
- 19:24Speaker 5: pumping out.
- 19:24Speaker 2: It feels like theirs are in a specific area.
- 19:27Speaker 5: Ours are all over the place, right?
- 19:28Speaker 1: 100%.
- 19:29Speaker 3: I mean, Lomas Brown yesterday, God bless the man. He's
- 19:32Speaker 3: great to talk to. Lions radio man. But, like, when
- 19:37Speaker 3: he tried to say we're in the same boat, bro,
- 19:40Speaker 3: we are in a damn yacht of injuries. You in
- 19:43Speaker 3: a little, uh, I don't even know, a little canoe
- 19:45Speaker 3: compared to us. Like, like it ain't even close.
- 19:47Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 19:48Speaker 3: I like, I'm sorry, Lions fans. I know everybody thinks
- 19:51Speaker 3: their injuries are the worst in the whole world, but
- 19:53Speaker 3: Lion fans, you got nothing on us, man. We're not
- 19:55Speaker 3: making excuses. Bonus is not an attempt to set up
- 19:58Speaker 3: an excuse.
- 19:59Speaker 2: We're going to enter the game in the old mash helicopter.
- 20:01Speaker 2: That's how we're entering the field on Sunday. Look it
- 20:04Speaker 2: up kids. It's an old reference, but it's, it's, it's very, uh,
- 20:07Speaker 2: It's a very apropos reference. It's either that or we
- 20:11Speaker 2: take LeBron's.
- 20:11Speaker 3: Helicopter, you know what I mean, that he travels to
- 20:13Speaker 3: practice with from New York to Philly every day.
- 20:16Speaker 2: How about that story about Tyrese Maxey at the podium?
- 20:20Speaker 2: the other day talking about it. I'll say real quick
- 20:22Speaker 2: because we're new pants and stuff here. Tyrese Maxey was
- 20:24Speaker 2: dying laughing at the podium the other day. His car
- 20:27Speaker 2: died outside of Philadelphia's practice and he was sitting on
- 20:31Speaker 2: the curb. And while he's sitting on the curb, he
- 20:33Speaker 2: looks up and LeBron's helicopter is taking off as he
- 20:36Speaker 2: leaves practice.
- 20:37Speaker 5: The damn came.
- 20:37Speaker 2: He said, damn.
- 20:39Speaker 5: Different worlds.
- 20:40Speaker 3: The damn king, man. Yeah, it's an interesting setup. Well,
- 20:44Speaker 3: we know he won. Of course he wanted to live
- 20:46Speaker 3: in New York. He's already admitted he wanted to play
- 20:48Speaker 3: for the Knicks but couldn't bring himself to do it
- 20:50Speaker 3: just because they won the title and it wouldn't look good.
- 20:52Speaker 5: So, I mean, seriously, Philly, does he really want.
- 20:55Speaker 3: To be with you?
- 20:55Speaker 5: But anyway.
- 20:56Speaker 2: Is he going to end up at a Knicks game
- 20:57Speaker 2: this year just sitting there when Philly's on an off
- 20:59Speaker 2: day like right in the front row? All right, let's
- 21:03Speaker 2: roll through this injury news of the Panthers. So the
- 21:05Speaker 2: good news is Bryce full practice again. Princely full practice.
- 21:09Speaker 3: That's good news because he didn't practice the other day
- 21:12Speaker 3: with whatever this ankle injury is.
- 21:14Speaker 5: So that's good news. Coker and Freeling limited yesterday. These
- 21:18Speaker 5: are two dudes.
- 21:18Speaker 3: Right now, Bone, that I think are pretty important. Dave Canales,
- 21:24Speaker 3: we'll see what he says today about Freeling and the
- 21:26Speaker 3: concussion protocol. He's able to do some stuff. And Canales
- 21:30Speaker 3: seemed to think he might be out of it by Sunday,
- 21:33Speaker 3: but we got to let this play out. But if
- 21:34Speaker 3: he doesn't play, it's Stone Forsyth starting. Freeling hasn't been perfect,
- 21:39Speaker 3: but Stone Forsyth is not ideal against Aiden Hutchinson.
- 21:43Speaker 5: Jalen Coker, limited yesterday. He wouldn't be ideal against Aiden McLean.
- 21:49Speaker 5: That's Mac jr.
- 21:49Speaker 3: By the way, for those of you scoring at home, um,
- 21:52Speaker 3: Coker limited seems like maybe they're trying to ramp him
- 21:55Speaker 3: back up. As a matter of fact, yesterday afterwards, Jalen
- 21:59Speaker 3: Coker met with the media at his locker and kind
- 22:03Speaker 3: of gave us information about his injury.
- 22:05Speaker 2: Uh, I'm feeling good.
- 22:06Speaker 4: You know, I'm just trying to just battle through some stuff, but, um, yeah,
- 22:11Speaker 4: I mean, I, I don't really know like what brought
- 22:13Speaker 4: on what, but, um, I felt good today and, um, Yeah,
- 22:18Speaker 4: just excited to keep going this week.
- 22:19Speaker 5: Is there any part of you that's like the bye
- 22:21Speaker 5: week's coming?
- 22:21Speaker 2: I know you want to get out there, but is
- 22:22Speaker 2: there any part like the bye week coming.
- 22:25Speaker 5: Up that you have to kind of weigh that as
- 22:27Speaker 5: you figure out where you're at?
- 22:28Speaker 2: I mean, not really.
- 22:30Speaker 4: I miss enough games, I think, so I'm doing everything
- 22:33Speaker 4: I can to get out there and play.
- 22:34Speaker 5: You know, I want to help our team win, so
- 22:37Speaker 5: that's what I'm going to.
- 22:38Speaker 2: Try to do.
- 22:38Speaker 5: Are you expecting to play Sunday?
- 22:41Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 22:41Speaker 4: That's not my call.
- 22:44Speaker 5: There you go.
- 22:44Speaker 3: Someone try to get themselves an answer there. Good effort there.
- 22:50Speaker 2: Yes, the corners are a massive loss in this game,
- 22:55Speaker 2: but I think the way this game is going to
- 22:57Speaker 2: play out, with the amount of points that will be scored,
- 23:01Speaker 2: Jalen Coker is, I think, to win this game, to
- 23:05Speaker 2: keep pace with the Lions' attack. They desperately need Jalen
- 23:09Speaker 2: Coker in this game. We'll talk to Trevor Sycamore about
- 23:11Speaker 2: it later, about TMAC and the opportunity in this game
- 23:14Speaker 2: to really... get himself going with the big game. But
- 23:17Speaker 2: I think they need both guys going in this game.
- 23:19Speaker 2: It's going to have to be a lot of.
- 23:21Speaker 5: Scoring, man. Like Phinney on a ninth date.
- 23:26Speaker 3: They have given up the fourth most yards to wide receivers.
- 23:29Speaker 3: They're all banged up in that secondary. They're looking to
- 23:31Speaker 3: make some changes at corner this week. because the guys
- 23:34Speaker 3: that have been out there have been getting lit up.
- 23:37Speaker 3: They weren't good last year pass defense-wise either. I mean,
- 23:39Speaker 3: this is a problem for them. And, yeah, if you've
- 23:42Speaker 3: got TMAC and Coker, you feel a lot better about
- 23:45Speaker 3: your chances of exploiting that. Now, the other thing, the
- 23:49Speaker 3: good news is they ain't good against tight ends either.
- 23:52Speaker 5: They have given up the most.
- 23:53Speaker 3: Yards to tight ends through three weeks.
- 23:55Speaker 5: So, yeah.
- 23:56Speaker 3: It's a very big chance, if pass protection can be
- 23:59Speaker 3: just okay, for Bryce Young to do it through the air.
- 24:03Speaker 2: They let a rookie last week go over a hundy
- 24:05Speaker 2: and get a tutty. Now, that is a pretty talented rookie.
- 24:08Speaker 2: I use hundy and tutty in the same sentence. Was
- 24:10Speaker 2: I trying to be too cool there, I think? Yeah,
- 24:12Speaker 2: I feel like you did. Hey, yeah, they let a
- 24:14Speaker 2: rookie get a hundy and a tutty. That was Siddiqui Freaky, though.
- 24:17Speaker 2: That was not just like a sixth-round pick rookie tight end.
- 24:20Speaker 2: That's true, that is true. I do want to point
- 24:24Speaker 2: that out.
- 24:24Speaker 3: But, yes, I think this is the best Panther fans
- 24:26Speaker 3: have probably felt about their tight ends in the passing
- 24:28Speaker 3: game since Greg Olsen.
- 24:30Speaker 5: Like, point blank period.
- 24:32Speaker 7: 100%.
- 24:32Speaker 3: 11 catches combined for three guys for 128 yards. Darren Waller,
- 24:36Speaker 3: five for 55. So, yeah, let's hope those guys can
- 24:40Speaker 3: get it. My gut feeling is that I think Coker's
- 24:43Speaker 3: going to try. I think Coker's going to give it
- 24:45Speaker 3: a go. Would be my gut feeling. Mike K asked
- 24:48Speaker 3: the question, are you looking at it as if I
- 24:50Speaker 3: can just, you know, sit out this one, bye week,
- 24:53Speaker 3: and then I'm good to go. I think he might,
- 24:55Speaker 3: and again, it's not all his decision, but I think
- 24:58Speaker 3: in his mind, he might want to look at it like,
- 25:00Speaker 3: I got next week off.
- 25:02Speaker 5: I don't have to do anything.
- 25:03Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Get through this one. And
- 25:06Speaker 3: then I have two weeks till my next game.
- 25:08Speaker 2: That bye we grumbled about when the schedule came out.
- 25:10Speaker 2: Now it's coming at the perfect time for this.
- 25:12Speaker 5: Seriously. I will say we mentioned Waller. We mentioned TMAC.
- 25:16Speaker 2: I believe that both guys are anytime touchdown guys this week.
- 25:22Speaker 5: I think Waller gets one, and I think T-Mac gets
- 25:24Speaker 5: on the board this week.
- 25:25Speaker 3: Are there any anytime touchdown guys in the Lions, by
- 25:27Speaker 3: any chance, Boat?
- 25:28Speaker 2: I think it'll be, I've got St. Brown, I've got
- 25:31Speaker 2: Jamison Williams, I've got, no, I haven't figured out. Dude,
- 25:33Speaker 2: Calvin Johnson may get a touchdown catch. They may roll
- 25:36Speaker 2: him out there. They may hand the ball to Lomas
- 25:38Speaker 2: Brown in the booth and say, Lomas, go carry us.
- 25:41Speaker 2: I think it's going to be The point is, there
- 25:44Speaker 2: will be a lot of touchdowns on both sides.
- 25:46Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a fun game. Unless
- 25:47Speaker 3: the weather, unless that rain changes, you know what I mean?
- 25:50Speaker 3: Changes what you can do passing-wise. All right, let's get
- 25:53Speaker 3: to more. By the way, Devin Lloyd, someone was asking–
- 25:58Speaker 3: I don't know if it was yesterday or about Devin Lloyd.
- 26:00Speaker 3: Devin Lloyd's been full practice all week long. Nick Scott,
- 26:03Speaker 3: full practice. So those guys are good to go. Lee
- 26:06Speaker 3: Hunter was added as limited with a foot injury. So
- 26:10Speaker 3: we'll see how that one goes today at practice. All right,
- 26:14Speaker 3: let's hear a little bit more. Let's hear from the
- 26:16Speaker 3: coordinators yesterday. Thursday was coordinator day. And I do want
- 26:21Speaker 3: to shout out Tracy Smith.
- 26:22Speaker 5: Very amusing, as always. Oh, man. Now, Tracy, we don't
- 26:25Speaker 5: have any audio from you. I'm sorry. I got nothing
- 26:27Speaker 5: for you. But amusing.
- 26:29Speaker 3: Just very good sense of humor. Doesn't take himself too seriously.
- 26:33Speaker 3: That's how I like my special teams coaches.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Do you think there's any heat between JJ and Tracy
- 26:37Speaker 2: Smith like McCarthy and Rogers?
- 26:40Speaker 5: Slightly different relationships, I feel like.
- 26:42Speaker 3: All right, let's get to the coordinators that we did
- 26:46Speaker 3: pull audio from. Let's start with Brad Idzik because at
- 26:49Speaker 3: least he's acknowledging it. I don't think there's any doubt
- 26:52Speaker 3: that it needs to be noted. It feels like there's
- 26:54Speaker 3: a philosophical shift in the Panthers' offense. I think it's
- 26:58Speaker 3: trust in Bryce. I think it's the emergence of Coker
- 27:02Speaker 3: and TMAC together. Maybe the tight ends, maybe Waller. But
- 27:06Speaker 3: my God, they have become Air Idzik. They run the
- 27:10Speaker 3: ball only 34% of the time. That's second lowest in
- 27:13Speaker 3: the league. This is the Panthers we're talking about here.
- 27:16Speaker 3: And Brad Idzik did acknowledge that, hey, yes, things have
- 27:20Speaker 3: gotten a bit pass-heavy.
- 27:22Speaker 7: I'm well aware of the pass tendencies the first three
- 27:25Speaker 7: weeks in general. I know what those self-scout numbers are,
- 27:30Speaker 7: and I can't wait to play into those and make
- 27:32Speaker 7: sure the defense is honoring both sides of the ball.
- 27:35Speaker 7: I got to call my runs down there, and I
- 27:37Speaker 7: got to lean on those guys that they're settling in
- 27:40Speaker 7: in the run game, and that opens up everything else.
- 27:43Speaker 7: So the complimentary football down there, that's what scored us
- 27:46Speaker 7: that touchdown late in the game against Cleveland. It's because
- 27:49Speaker 7: we were running the ball well that we were able
- 27:51Speaker 7: to hit that quick keeper to John Meche in the
- 27:53Speaker 7: end zone. So For me, I know the importance of
- 27:56Speaker 7: the balance, especially when you get down there and tight.
- 27:59Speaker 7: It also, you know, it's on the back shoulders to,
- 28:02Speaker 7: you know, finish those runs when the safeties are, you know,
- 28:05Speaker 7: they're unaccounted for and they're usually in the high post
- 28:07Speaker 7: in the field. And now they get a little bit closer.
- 28:10Speaker 7: A lot of times you've got to leave one for
- 28:11Speaker 7: the back. I just need them to grind out and
- 28:13Speaker 7: be physical downhill, you know, on the finishing part of
- 28:16Speaker 7: those runs. And they've done that.
- 28:17Speaker 4: So.
- 28:18Speaker 7: For me, I just need to make sure what are
- 28:20Speaker 7: those times when I can get more of those called,
- 28:22Speaker 7: and we can play that balance attack all the way
- 28:24Speaker 7: through the goal line there.
- 28:26Speaker 5: I don't know, Bone. This is a 78 time. They've
- 28:29Speaker 5: got to find more balance.
- 28:30Speaker 3: I don't want to sound like the unappreciative Panther fan
- 28:32Speaker 3: that does not appreciate the passing downfield, which I've been
- 28:37Speaker 3: yelling and screaming about all offseason, but they've got to
- 28:40Speaker 3: find more of a balance. And maybe the weather conditions, Bone,
- 28:44Speaker 3: will kind of make both teams feel Maybe not go
- 28:47Speaker 3: full pass heavy like they would if it was perfect weather.
- 28:51Speaker 2: Week one, the Lions allowed 91 yards rushing to New Orleans.
- 28:56Speaker 2: Week two, that Thursday night game. Now keep in mind
- 28:59Speaker 2: of who's helping run the football here. They allow 203
- 29:03Speaker 2: yards to Buffalo in that game. 58 last week, although
- 29:06Speaker 2: they were diced in the air by Geno Smith. I
- 29:08Speaker 2: think there's a number there that's somewhere between here. I
- 29:12Speaker 2: don't think they're going to run for 203 like the Bills,
- 29:15Speaker 2: but they need to go over 100 in this game.
- 29:17Speaker 2: What do you think that sweet number is, Matt, that
- 29:19Speaker 2: you want to see yards, total yards, the Panthers get to?
- 29:22Speaker 2: I think it's got to be somewhere in that. 130-ish,
- 29:25Speaker 2: 140 range as a team to give themselves a chance
- 29:28Speaker 2: in this game. Yeah, and I would start with carries.
- 29:31Speaker 3: That's the number that I would start with.
- 29:33Speaker 5: Can you give me 25 actual runs? I don't think
- 29:37Speaker 5: we've gotten that number once. I think we need more balance.
- 29:45Speaker 3: I read something yesterday, Bone, that we are the third,
- 29:49Speaker 3: like we run the third most plays per minute. That's
- 29:52Speaker 3: been one of the emphases.
- 29:54Speaker 5: Emphasize?
- 29:54Speaker 3: I don't know. Get out of the huddle quick. And
- 29:58Speaker 3: they've been doing that. Get the playoff quick with time
- 30:00Speaker 3: to spare. Against the Lions, I'm not sure we need
- 30:05Speaker 3: to be in that much of a hurry. I don't
- 30:07Speaker 3: know if I want to get in a... Like, the
- 30:08Speaker 3: Bears game was a 14-possession game. I don't know if
- 30:10Speaker 3: I want to get in a 14-possession game with golf,
- 30:13Speaker 3: throwing the ball, their weapons, and our corners out.
- 30:16Speaker 5: You know what I mean? No, you had to almost.
- 30:19Speaker 2: It's weird because, yeah, you want to score a lot,
- 30:21Speaker 2: but you have to kind of slow this thing down.
- 30:23Speaker 2: If it gets too high, we could have a bear
- 30:26Speaker 2: situation on our hands. So you've got to find that
- 30:28Speaker 2: balance here. Yeah, you want to score some points, but
- 30:31Speaker 2: it's all right to kind of maybe take your time
- 30:34Speaker 2: in getting some points. Yeah, so that's my thoughts on it, man.
- 30:36Speaker 2: So I'll just give you my numbers as a carry number.
- 30:40Speaker 5: 25-plus. You know, let's get this thing a little more balanced.
- 30:44Speaker 5: this week.
- 30:45Speaker 3: I'm looking at the text line, seeing what folks are saying.
- 30:47Speaker 3: 22 against the bears, 22 against Atlanta, 23 against Cleveland.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 30:52Speaker 3: They need to get that thing to 30, even if
- 30:54Speaker 3: you want to, but we'll see. Then there's the question of, Hey,
- 30:57Speaker 3: can we run it that well? But I do think
- 30:59Speaker 3: to the point you made earlier in the week, the
- 31:01Speaker 3: yards per carry number is 10th in the league. Just
- 31:04Speaker 3: stick with it a little bit more. But there's a
- 31:06Speaker 3: fine line balance because you also want to make sure, Bone,
- 31:08Speaker 3: you are throwing it deep on this secondary that's been.
- 31:11Speaker 5: Lit up deep.
- 31:12Speaker 3: So there's a run game, deep pass, and there's a
- 31:15Speaker 3: mix there that I think we're looking for.
- 31:17Speaker 2: I also have a here's a guy counter, Mac, when
- 31:19Speaker 2: the Panthers have the ball on offense. That's my Chris
- 31:21Speaker 2: Collinsworth stat. If he says, now here's a guy, and
- 31:24Speaker 2: we have the ball, that means something's going well in
- 31:26Speaker 2: the Panthers' offense. Now here's a guy, and they're focusing
- 31:30Speaker 2: on the Panthers' offense, and you get a here's a guy,
- 31:32Speaker 2: something good happens.
- 31:33Speaker 3: I think in honor of Collinsworth, I may slide into
- 31:35Speaker 3: the doghouse studios.
- 31:36Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
- 31:37Speaker 3: Just slide myself in there, Collinsworth style. The general says,
- 31:42Speaker 3: Panthers aren't beating the Lions.
- 31:44Speaker 5: Stop.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Stop.
- 31:45Speaker 3: With this madness the general most of us including myself
- 31:49Speaker 3: said that going into the rams and packer game last
- 31:51Speaker 3: year sir i just want to throw that on the
- 31:53Speaker 3: record i my official prediction will be later on the
- 31:55Speaker 3: show but i just want to put that out there
- 31:58Speaker 3: on the.
- 31:58Speaker 2: Record the lions are not far off from being oh
- 32:01Speaker 2: and three by the way they're not the lions of
- 32:02Speaker 2: a couple years ago they beat the saints late They
- 32:06Speaker 2: barely beat the Jets. They got decimated on the ground
- 32:09Speaker 2: by the Bills. Like, look, the Lions, I'm not even
- 32:12Speaker 2: making a pick right now. I'm just saying maybe the
- 32:15Speaker 2: mindset of the Lions right now needs to be adjusted
- 32:18Speaker 2: a little bit.
- 32:19Speaker 5: As well here. 100%.
- 32:22Speaker 3: And if you want to go in deeper on that
- 32:24Speaker 3: first game against the Saints– Um, the saints got screwed
- 32:26Speaker 3: out of a touchdown.
- 32:28Speaker 5: Am I glad it happened?
- 32:29Speaker 1: Yes.
- 32:29Speaker 3: I'm glad it happened, but they had a, what should
- 32:32Speaker 3: have been a defensive touchdown against golf. And one, and
- 32:35Speaker 3: the replay ruling was one of the weirdest I've ever seen.
- 32:37Speaker 1: Right.
- 32:37Speaker 3: So like, let's, um, yeah, I just, we'll talk about
- 32:41Speaker 3: it as the show goes on. And, but it was
- 32:42Speaker 3: the point I was making earlier bone, which is this
- 32:45Speaker 3: is a three and a half point spread. This is
- 32:47Speaker 3: not like Rams and Packers last year. Let's hear from
- 32:51Speaker 3: Ajiro Avera. I'm sure the text line will be happy
- 32:54Speaker 3: to hear from him. He was asked all about it, Bone.
- 32:59Speaker 3: You lose two corners that are that damn good, and
- 33:02Speaker 3: you start a rookie, and you start a guy that's
- 33:04Speaker 3: best known for being a gunner on your special teams.
- 33:07Speaker 3: Lee and Caleb Evans. It's the storyline of the game,
- 33:12Speaker 3: and Avera talked about his comfort level with those young guys.
- 33:16Speaker 1: We have a lot of confidence in Caleb. We have
- 33:19Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in Will. And, you know, obviously,
- 33:22Speaker 1: you know, Mike and JC were the starters for a reason.
- 33:25Speaker 1: We all understand that. But, like, we have a lot
- 33:28Speaker 1: of confidence in what these guys are going to do.
- 33:30Speaker 5: And there's not going to be any excuses made.
- 33:32Speaker 1: Like, we are confident that we could go out there
- 33:34Speaker 1: and play well with these two guys and play well
- 33:36Speaker 1: with our defense. And that's our mindset. And it's our
- 33:40Speaker 1: job as coaches to get those guys in the best
- 33:42Speaker 1: positions to do their jobs.
- 33:45Speaker 5: So there you go. What do you expect? You know,
- 33:46Speaker 5: what do you expect him to say? Oh, we're screwed. Yeah.
- 33:50Speaker 5: But I do.
- 33:50Speaker 7: I do.
- 33:51Speaker 2: I do. I do.
- 33:51Speaker 5: I do. I do feel like they will. They will.
- 33:55Speaker 3: They will set up structurally to kind of protect those guys,
- 33:58Speaker 3: keep guys in front of those dudes. Not let guys
- 34:02Speaker 3: make big plays against them. I think clearly they will
- 34:04Speaker 3: do that.
- 34:04Speaker 2: And also last year, without Mike Jack and Horn, they
- 34:08Speaker 2: did beat the Rams. And think about how much better
- 34:10Speaker 2: the linebacker play is this year compared to last year
- 34:13Speaker 2: when those guys were out.
- 34:14Speaker 5: They didn't even have the starting linebackers in that game. Yeah.
- 34:17Speaker 3: Roseboom was out. Wallace was injured. Roseboom was out. And
- 34:20Speaker 3: Cherlis were out.
- 34:22Speaker 5: So they didn't even have as bad. So they were
- 34:23Speaker 5: down to like the third string of.
- 34:25Speaker 3: Linebackers in that game as well.
- 34:26Speaker 2: And I'm sure a guy like Flip Flops probably– Or
- 34:30Speaker 2: who's that that said that we have no chance? Was
- 34:32Speaker 2: it Flip Flops or somebody else? No, the general, I think, right?
- 34:35Speaker 2: Flip Flops is also talking about the defense doing bad
- 34:38Speaker 2: against the Browns. The general probably said last year they
- 34:41Speaker 2: have no chance.
- 34:41Speaker 5: To beat the Rams. I went back and looked. And
- 34:43Speaker 5: I said that. You know what I mean?
- 34:45Speaker 3: I thought we had 0% chance to beat the Rams.
- 34:49Speaker 3: And I'm thinking you might have as well.
- 34:51Speaker 5: Yeah, I probably did.
- 34:53Speaker 3: So I'm trying to, like, we have to acknowledge, man,
- 34:58Speaker 3: that this looks tough, looks daunting, but we did it,
- 35:03Speaker 3: I think, Bone, in way tougher circumstances. last year straight
- 35:08Speaker 3: pepper diet with another can we get these negative text
- 35:11Speaker 3: sponsored um uh straight pepper diet aren't we notoriously bad
- 35:15Speaker 3: on monday night football in these primetime evening games of
- 35:19Speaker 3: course this one will be played on a sunday.
- 35:20Speaker 2: Night these guys are great at parties by the way
- 35:22Speaker 2: but i get your point i don't really like the
- 35:24Speaker 2: way this dip tastes.
- 35:25Speaker 3: Bryce has never won a primetime game and we are
- 35:27Speaker 3: 37 in primetime games.
- 35:31Speaker 5: So not good, Bob. Not good. So I thought that's
- 35:34Speaker 5: a little higher than I thought. All right, we come back.
- 35:36Speaker 2: It's the Couch Potato Guide, your guide to all the
- 35:40Speaker 2: sports on TV this weekend that you need to know
- 35:43Speaker 2: about on the Mac and Bone Show, Sports Radio 92.7.
- 36:13Speaker 2: Is there any chance Cutter sees increased action this week
- 36:16Speaker 2: or this season?
- 36:17Speaker 5: There's always a chance.
- 36:18Speaker 6: Our guys are competing today at practice and at every position.
- 36:22Speaker 6: Everybody's competing all the time. There's always a chance for
- 36:27Speaker 6: anybody to be able to get out there. If we
- 36:29Speaker 6: feel like that was what gave us the best chance
- 36:32Speaker 6: to win the game, then that's.
- 36:33Speaker 1: What we do.
- 36:35Speaker 5: There you go, baby. That was interesting.
- 36:37Speaker 3: Second straight week there's been an answer like that when
- 36:41Speaker 3: Kendall Bryles, OC for the Gamecocks, has been asked about, hey,
- 36:44Speaker 3: could Cutter Woods, the backup, get in there this week
- 36:47Speaker 3: or moving forward? It is definitely not a, you know,
- 36:51Speaker 3: how dare you ask me that question. Lenore Sellers is
- 36:54Speaker 3: my damn quarterback. It definitely wasn't that sort of answer, Bone.
- 36:57Speaker 3: We love Lenore. We're going to ride with Lenore. Win
- 37:00Speaker 3: or lose, that's our guy. You're not getting that attitude.
- 37:03Speaker 3: It feels like we are– one bad interception maybe early
- 37:07Speaker 3: in the game or something happening, it feels like we
- 37:10Speaker 3: are very close. If this thing gets off to a
- 37:12Speaker 3: rocky start on tomorrow afternoon, it feels like we are
- 37:16Speaker 3: very close, Mac, to getting Lenora Sellers benched, at least
- 37:20Speaker 3: for a little while. But I don't think it's going
- 37:24Speaker 3: to get off to a rocky start. But I tried
- 37:26Speaker 3: saying that last week, but look what happened.
- 37:28Speaker 2: Well, I looked into my always reliable crystal ball this morning,
- 37:32Speaker 2: and I've got a feeling on what's going to happen
- 37:33Speaker 2: this weekend.
- 37:34Speaker 5: During our confidence segment here.
- 37:37Speaker 2: You can almost sense of what direction this is headed
- 37:39Speaker 2: in the next two weeks. You can almost see what's
- 37:42Speaker 2: going to take place here.
- 37:43Speaker 5: There you go. I have a question.
- 37:44Speaker 2: My crystal ball, by the way, a little foggy at times,
- 37:46Speaker 2: but I've cleaned it off.
- 37:48Speaker 3: I've wiped it off. Mine's broken. I dropped it. I
- 37:53Speaker 3: have a question later for Gamecock fans, including Bone. Do
- 37:55Speaker 3: you even want to win on Saturday? Oh, I always
- 37:57Speaker 3: want to win. That's the question. Because I'm not feeling
- 37:59Speaker 3: that sort of energy from y'all. But let's get to
- 38:03Speaker 3: the couch potato guide.
- 38:05Speaker 5: What's going on? What's on our TV?
- 38:07Speaker 3: And when, as we get ready to try to balance
- 38:10Speaker 3: all this sports this weekend.
- 38:11Speaker 2: Is this a Saturday night to take your lady out?
- 38:13Speaker 2: Is it a Saturday night to maybe... Maybe you can
- 38:17Speaker 2: go somewhere for this college football Saturday. We'll explain that
- 38:19Speaker 2: here during this.
- 38:20Speaker 5: Well, it is for me. It's football season, right? It
- 38:22Speaker 5: is for me. You don't take your lady out during
- 38:24Speaker 5: football season.
- 38:26Speaker 3: Even out for a month straight. Get out of here, man.
- 38:30Speaker 3: My wife's birthday is Monday. We will probably be out
- 38:34Speaker 3: on Saturday night.
- 38:35Speaker 5: Not a football guy. Shut the bleep up. Seriously. What
- 38:39Speaker 5: a full of crap. Anyway, let's move along.
- 38:43Speaker 3: Friday night, tonight, that would be tonight, Pitt, Virginia Tech,
- 38:46Speaker 3: big ACC battle, the unbeatens at 7 on ESPN, Penn
- 38:50Speaker 3: State at Northwestern on Fox. Let's get to Saturday. The
- 38:55Speaker 3: early games, Notre Dame, North Carolina at noon, ESPN, Alabama,
- 39:02Speaker 3: Mississippi State. The best game of the day is a
- 39:04Speaker 3: noon game. You don't say that often.
- 39:07Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 39:07Speaker 5: Maybe when Ohio State and.
- 39:08Speaker 3: Michigan play a big game, you know, when they're both
- 39:10Speaker 3: good or whatever, and they stick it on Fox at noon. But, yeah,
- 39:13Speaker 3: Alabama-Mississippi State is an amazing game in Starkville on ABC
- 39:17Speaker 3: at noon. Then you get to Wake Forest-Stanford noon on
- 39:21Speaker 3: the ACC Network. Oh, actually, I'm messing up here. Well,
- 39:26Speaker 3: I'll do Vanderbilt, Georgia, 1245 on the SEC Network, but
- 39:30Speaker 3: I messed up.
- 39:31Speaker 5: We got a game even before noon. The Charlotte 49ers. Oh, yeah, yeah,
- 39:34Speaker 5: that's right.
- 39:34Speaker 3: The Charlotte 49ers are hosting their homecoming game against Memphis.
- 39:39Speaker 5: I did this yesterday. I apologize. At 11 a.m. I
- 39:41Speaker 5: forgot to move it there. Yeah, 11 a.m.
- 39:43Speaker 3: Game because of the weather that will be coming into
- 39:46Speaker 3: Charlotte later in the day.
- 39:47Speaker 5: So, Niner fans.
- 39:50Speaker 3: It's a little kegs and eggs for y'all's tailgate tomorrow.
- 39:52Speaker 2: Hunter Bailey was asking for names of this game during
- 39:55Speaker 2: breakfast tomorrow. And the first one that came in was
- 39:59Speaker 2: a massacre over mimosas.
- 40:02Speaker 5: Oh, geez. I'm sorry. I forgot to move that back
- 40:04Speaker 5: up to the early slate.
- 40:06Speaker 3: My bad. I was going to ask Charlotte why they
- 40:08Speaker 3: scheduled Memphis for homecoming bone. Because Memphis, that offense is
- 40:12Speaker 3: high power. That pass rush pretty damn good. But I
- 40:16Speaker 3: don't know. I was going to say Charlotte should have
- 40:19Speaker 3: scheduled a Citadel for homecoming. But that wouldn't have even
- 40:22Speaker 3: been fun. Can they play Monmouth again? All right, let's
- 40:26Speaker 3: get to the afternoon games.
- 40:29Speaker 5: You've got....
- 40:31Speaker 3: NC State, Louisville, ACC Network, 3.30. You have Virginia and
- 40:37Speaker 3: Florida State, 3.30 on ESPN2. That was a real good
- 40:41Speaker 3: game last year. You have Florida, Mizzou. That is 3.30
- 40:47Speaker 3: on ABC. You've got Ohio State, Iowa, CBS, 3.30.
- 40:51Speaker 7: You have.
- 40:56Speaker 5: Auburn, Tennessee, that also is 3.30, right? ESPN? I was
- 40:59Speaker 5: thinking that was night for some reason.
- 41:01Speaker 3: Okay, that's 3.30. And then the Charlotte one got moved. So,
- 41:05Speaker 3: I don't know, 3.30 is kind of nice.
- 41:07Speaker 2: That's also the Braves-Dodgers window tomorrow at 4 p.m. So that's...
- 41:11Speaker 2: That's the most loaded up time period of the day.
- 41:14Speaker 2: There's a lot going on in that. And we didn't even–
- 41:16Speaker 2: that's true.
- 41:16Speaker 3: We didn't even say Gamecocks, Kentucky is the 4-15 SEC game.
- 41:19Speaker 3: So there's a lot going on there. Yeah, so when
- 41:22Speaker 3: I take Mrs. Mack out to dinner, Bone, it's going
- 41:24Speaker 3: to be like record, record, record, record, and then just
- 41:28Speaker 3: go through all the games I recorded when I get
- 41:29Speaker 3: home along with Clemson and– And Miami?
- 41:33Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 41:34Speaker 5: Because the night is kind of bare, right?
- 41:37Speaker 2: It is.
- 41:37Speaker 3: The night is kind of bare in terms of games
- 41:39Speaker 3: we're interested in. You do have the Miami-Clemson game on
- 41:43Speaker 3: ABC at 7.30. But there's literally no other game tomorrow
- 41:47Speaker 3: night that I feel like I need to watch.
- 41:50Speaker 2: You know, you got BYU's in action against TCU. Washington
- 41:54Speaker 2: USC's the NBC game. And Indiana's playing Rutgers also.
- 41:59Speaker 5: So that's the... Rutgers!
- 42:00Speaker 2: That's the night football slate. Yeah, this is a... I
- 42:04Speaker 2: have a feeling there's going to be some... some chaos
- 42:07Speaker 2: maybe early in the day there a little bit. But
- 42:09Speaker 2: at night, this is the rare time where it's not
- 42:13Speaker 2: the loaded up primetime window like we normally see. And
- 42:15Speaker 2: that's why Miami Clemson's at night, by the way. We wondered, like, oh,
- 42:18Speaker 2: that's a primetime game. Well, they got to put something there. Well,
- 42:20Speaker 2: they should.
- 42:22Speaker 3: I mean, I would argue that Mississippi State and Alabama
- 42:25Speaker 3: should have been the primetime game.
- 42:27Speaker 5: Well, you could have put one on ABC, one on ESPN.
- 42:29Speaker 5: They had a better night's sleep. And Miami Clemson should
- 42:31Speaker 5: have been noon. But I just, I don't know.
- 42:34Speaker 3: Did they want to take a week off from obsessing
- 42:36Speaker 3: over the SEC at ESPN? Because they went to the
- 42:40Speaker 3: Iowa-Ohio State game for game day instead of Starkville.
- 42:44Speaker 5: And then they put this ACC game.
- 42:46Speaker 3: Did they feel like, hey, we can't obsess over the
- 42:48Speaker 3: SEC with game day and primetime every week type thing?
- 42:52Speaker 5: You've also got the Canes on tonight against Washington. Tonight
- 42:55Speaker 5: and tomorrow. And then tomorrow night.
- 42:56Speaker 3: At 7, they're in Philadelphia. I like what the guide
- 42:59Speaker 3: says here, Bone. Check local listings. I still have no
- 43:03Speaker 3: earthly idea if I can watch the Canes games or
- 43:06Speaker 3: if I have to pony up to Prime.
- 43:07Speaker 2: The good news is, Mac, you have until May until
- 43:09Speaker 2: you really invest yourself.
- 43:12Speaker 5: I mean, it sucks. They're champs. Caniac Mac would like
- 43:15Speaker 5: to maybe check in from time to time, but I
- 43:17Speaker 5: don't know.
- 43:17Speaker 2: You might want to check in to see where you
- 43:18Speaker 2: can watch them every once in a while because they
- 43:19Speaker 2: can always change.
- 43:20Speaker 5: You never know.
- 43:21Speaker 3: Canes, you've got to get those damn games. You've got
- 43:23Speaker 3: to get that stuff on cable and satellite outlets. How
- 43:25Speaker 3: about they're going to be on TV64? locally, 10 home
- 43:30Speaker 3: games on Saturday nights. Or maybe not. I should say
- 43:33Speaker 3: home games.
- 43:34Speaker 2: 10 of their Saturday night games are going to be
- 43:36Speaker 2: on TV 64.
- 43:37Speaker 5: Okay, there's progress. They made a new deal. There's progress.
- 43:40Speaker 2: Not exactly the Hornets schedule.
- 43:42Speaker 5: Does that include this Saturday? I didn't see that part
- 43:45Speaker 5: of it. I have to double check.
- 43:46Speaker 3: Interesting.
- 43:47Speaker 5: Very interesting there. That's another there.
- 43:49Speaker 2: I mean, it's cool to see the local teams actually
- 43:53Speaker 2: have games on Saturday Local television, right?
- 43:57Speaker 5: Sunday, yeah, it's pretty cool.
- 43:58Speaker 3: That's definitely cool, especially considering the fact that my concern
- 44:02Speaker 3: is that, you know, you have to pay whatever it
- 44:04Speaker 3: is monthly to watch them on Prime. You know, that helps.
- 44:08Speaker 3: That helps if you don't want to do that. Sunday, obviously,
- 44:12Speaker 3: we've got Panthers. You've got NFL all day. You've got
- 44:15Speaker 3: the NASCAR race in Vegas at 530 on USA, and
- 44:19Speaker 3: then 8 o'clock, Braves and Dodgers. So, Braves game is
- 44:22Speaker 3: on simultaneously with the Panthers game. I got to tell you,
- 44:26Speaker 3: more good news for Braves fans. I ain't really going
- 44:29Speaker 3: to be watching much this weekend.
- 44:31Speaker 2: Yeah, they put the Braves in the most loaded part
- 44:34Speaker 2: of the college football day and against the Panther game.
- 44:36Speaker 2: This is all to keep the macker off the screen.
- 44:39Speaker 3: So, Finney, I want to explore this conversation a little more.
- 44:43Speaker 3: Are you saying that your lady does not mean enough
- 44:46Speaker 3: to you that at some point you would record some
- 44:50Speaker 3: college football games and take her out to dinner?
- 44:53Speaker 5: Is that what you're trying to tell me? That's not
- 44:56Speaker 5: what I'm saying at all, Mac.
- 44:58Speaker 3: She just does a great job of finding things to
- 45:01Speaker 3: do on Saturdays.
- 45:02Speaker 5: So does my wife. So I can enjoy my football Saturday.
- 45:05Speaker 5: I don't know if you've noticed. Mrs.
- 45:07Speaker 3: Mac lets me sit there for 12 hours and do
- 45:09Speaker 3: nothing every effing Saturday. Oh, shut the bleep up. There
- 45:15Speaker 3: is no queen like Mrs. Mac. She Everybody finds yourself
- 45:18Speaker 3: a Mrs. Mac, so shut the bleep up. But, like,
- 45:21Speaker 3: just quit being full of crap. Because quit being full
- 45:24Speaker 3: of crap right now. You are finally in a loving relationship,
- 45:28Speaker 3: so stop acting like an immature jackass for a change.
- 45:31Speaker 5: Seriously. Please.
- 45:33Speaker 3: If not, I'm sending this immature jackass tape to your
- 45:36Speaker 3: sweetheart and telling her this is who you're marrying. So
- 45:40Speaker 3: tell me, are you playing an immature jackass on the radio,
- 45:44Speaker 3: or you're really a jackass that she should leave right now?
- 45:47Speaker 5: That's what I want to know. I don't want to
- 45:50Speaker 5: interrupt you, but I think Matt thinks you're a jackass.
- 45:52Speaker 3: Because if you aren't going to take her out for
- 45:54Speaker 3: her birthday, if you're together for 20-something years, then she
- 45:57Speaker 3: ought to run from your bald ass.
- 46:00Speaker 2: That is the Calcitated Guide, your guide to weekend sports
- 46:04Speaker 2: on TV.
- 46:06Speaker 5: Dan, I say I struck a nerve there.
- 46:09Speaker 3: Grow the hell up, Fitty. Every now and then you
- 46:12Speaker 3: start to look like you're growing up and you could
- 46:14Speaker 3: be a man that can actually have responsibilities a man
- 46:18Speaker 3: can handle.
- 46:19Speaker 5: We are still going.
- 46:19Speaker 3: Yeah, we are still going because I want the best
- 46:21Speaker 3: for you. But if you keep this little immature, I
- 46:24Speaker 3: got to watch football. There's that woman that's in part
- 46:26Speaker 3: in his football. You're going to lose her and you're
- 46:28Speaker 3: going to look like a fool, Fitty.
- 46:30Speaker 5: Don't do it. All right, I think I'm done now.
- 46:34Speaker 2: Just want to give a shout-out to my woman Tara
- 46:37Speaker 2: out there who's listening.
- 46:38Speaker 5: She's good enough to skip football for. Absolutely. There you go, Bo.
- 46:42Speaker 2: I would skip any sport for her. Now, let me
- 46:44Speaker 2: throw this in here. You never skip a Panther game.
- 46:46Speaker 2: I just want to let you know that. There's no
- 46:48Speaker 2: woman worth skipping a Panther game for. All right, anyway,
- 46:51Speaker 2: move along.
- 46:53Speaker 5: I have a question, man. What's up? Respectfully. You all
- 46:56Speaker 5: right over there right now?
- 46:57Speaker 3: I'm doing great. I'm just telling you, we've got to
- 46:59Speaker 3: cut to the chase with this man. Is he grown up, Bone,
- 47:02Speaker 3: or is he still a little baby boy? All right,
- 47:04Speaker 3: let's just have it out right now.
- 47:06Speaker 5: What do you think? Because on Sundays when I get
- 47:09Speaker 5: off of work, you know what I do? I go
- 47:11Speaker 5: spend time with my girlfriend.
- 47:12Speaker 3: So then stop acting like Tommy Toughass on the radio then.
- 47:17Speaker 5: Just become a regular man in a relationship.
- 47:19Speaker 2: Can't their bows keep in track? That's two, shut the
- 47:21Speaker 2: bleep up, three immature jackasses, one bald ass, and one
- 47:25Speaker 2: Tommy tough ass. Let's all become grown men here, Finney.
- 47:29Speaker 2: Let's do that.
- 47:29Speaker 3: Let's all become grown men that can choose our families
- 47:32Speaker 3: over football on rare occasions.
- 47:34Speaker 2: Remember, this is a man who wants you to find love, though, Finney.
- 47:37Speaker 5: Let's keep that in mind. I do. I'm trying to
- 47:38Speaker 5: help him, Boney. No, your true colors were just revealed.
- 47:41Speaker 5: You are now probably rooting for the downfall. No, I'm
- 47:43Speaker 5: saying you're going to mess around and find out, Finney.
- 47:46Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. All right. We come back here
- 47:49Speaker 5: on the Mac and Bone Show. We all cool off.
- 47:51Speaker 5: We go to our separate corners.
- 47:53Speaker 2: We get on the same page. What matchups can Carolina
- 47:56Speaker 2: exploit on.
- 47:59Speaker 5: Sunday?
- 47:59Speaker 2: And what matchups could get ugly?
- 48:02Speaker 5: It's Mac. It's Bone. It's, huh? Like that just said?
- 48:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 48:06Speaker 2: Yeah. It's Mack Bone and Tommy Toughass on Sports Radio
- 48:10Speaker 2: 92.7 WFNC. It's all calm down. It's football time, right?
- 48:16Speaker 2: We're all football guys.